Free Marketing

101 Low and No-Cost Ways to Grow Your Business, Online and Off

By: Jim Cockrum

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

You used to need a big ad budget to get your message across. Not anymore! Thanks primarily to the Internet, a world of free and inexpensive tactics exists for spreading the word about your business. Free Marketing delivers more than one hundred marketing ideas to help small business owners and marketers generate new revenue—with little or no marketing budget. Using both Internet-based and creative offline ideas, you'll discover ways to turn your top customers into your unpaid sales force, get your competitors to help you promote your new products, and build a foundation for your business. Free Marketing offers simple, actionable advice to help you:

• Use your expert knowledge to create compelling content that attracts customers and enhances your credibility
• Create a "squeeze page," the most powerful one-page website you'll ever build.
• Create the 24 marketing videos you need to grow sales
• Implement a proven method to use eBay for publicity (which the author used to earn $30,000 and tons of free publicity off just one auction)
• Develop efficient online marketing habits that generate leads and boost your SEO
• Address smart phone trends with a strategic mobile marketing plan
• Don't let your marketing budget limit you anymore

Free Marketing proves that the most powerful marketing strategies can also be the cheapest.

©2011 Jim Cockrum (P)2011 Gildan Media Corp

Critic reviews

"Jim Cockrum's book is a megaphone for anyone who wants to get the word out about their business!" (Dave Ramsey, New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host)

Great Information, but you need to make notes

This book is full of very useful information, but don't try to read it on your commute. There's just to may things that go past as your just listening. I need to just be at home, maybe with a pen and paper or at the computer with this book. I listen to a lot of audio books with my hour and a half commute each day and I started to listen to this one on that commute, but decided it';s best to leave this one fore a time when I can really listen.

Awesome. Period.

What did you love best about Free Marketing?

It constantly answers the question for me,

What did you like best about this story?

Everything. Its packed with great info and unselfish attitude.

Very Good Book, Full of Actionable Items

Would you listen to Free Marketing again? Why?

I will listen again because you cannot get it all the first time.

Any additional comments?

Thanks Jim for getting your message out, it is a life changer for me!

Good Content, Sleep-inducing audio.

Any additional comments?

-Note to Mr Cockrum: I know you hired this reader because his voice has an authoritative tone to it, but it comes off as snobby when the subject matter is more practical application and not groundbreaking in nature. I've heard your voice on the audios in your websites before, and I feel as though the readers of your books would benefit much more if you hire a narrator that matches your own lively tempo and personality. -

The information is great. The author proves that if we put these strategies into practice we'll reap great reward. I've finished the book and I know that I'll listen a few more times to pick up the things I missed. I'm just reluctant to do so while driving as I managed to doze off while listening to it in my office a few times, coffee in hand.

My advice to others: Buy the paper copy if you can. But if you do most of your "reading" while driving, get this. It is worth the $, either way. I would only recommend you increase the narrator speed to 1.5x. Safety first. ;)

Excellent place to start

Any additional comments?

For anyone who is new to this world of online business, this is a great place to start and I got a lot out of it thanks. A bit repetitive as he will often give you a bit of information on a topic then come back to it a few times with a slightly expanded version. Overall worth the money!

Great book!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes I would recommend this book! It filled with a lot of great information and tips and tricks!

Very informative information.

This is a great tool for the self marketing person. Allowed me to understand proper etiquette. I innocently didn't know you couldn't introduce yourself to a business through email. I guess the diet pill industry and the SEO so called experts have ruined it for the sincere online business owner. I will definitely have to listen again to write down every suggested link offered that will benefit.

Thought it was going to be just another ,,,,,,

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, it turned out this book had a lot to offer

Who was your favorite character and why?

Many marketing tips I had just simply never thought of

Have you listened to any of Sean Pratt’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Never heard before

Any additional comments?

Started off with the mention of God, and I thought I had bought another sermon disguised as a book, but it lasted only a minute and got down to business. I do not often find value in many business related books, but this for me was an exception. Added bonus, was also narrated well.

I'll be reading this one!

This book is jam-packed with practical nuggets, that can be put into place immediately. I listened this time taking minimal notes, the next time I will taking notes and testing the outcomes of what I have implemented. Thanks for this gem, Jim!

Great tips for leveraging technology

Great tips onbhow to leverage technology- A lot of useful information although a lot of info felt refundant from chapter to chapeter